“I meditate every day for around 6 months.
I’ve missed a couple here and there, but mostly I’ve been consistent.
I meditate for 10 to 20 minutes with breath work at the beginning. I do my breath work and breath holds to get relaxed, then I begin to meditate for 10 to 20 minutes depending on how much time there is. Never less than 10 mins.
I started meditating because I want to be a calmer person. I walk around at 10000 RPM, something annoying happens and it’s not hard to get me to 100.
Me or my wife haven’t noticed any benefits from mediation. I feel like I did last year, felt a bit calmer. When I’m meditating I’m bored out of my mind just sitting there. I try to focus on breathing and letting emotions or thoughts go by like logs floating on a river. But here I am feeling like I’m just wasting time.
What can I expect? Everyone I have asked so far says this can make me calmer, but I think it just frustrates me.
What am I doing wrong?“
Well done for building a consistent meditation habit.
Your emotions and thoughts are important and require addressing.
Watching them float by leaves them unresolved.
Imagine you are at a train station.
You sit their watching the trains come and go.
This is what you are doing when you meditate.
If you stay sitting there watching the trains come and go you will never go anywhere.
If you get on a train you will go somewhere.
Pick a thought and address it. Resolve it without spending too much time on it.
Then move on to the next thought and so on.
You will then start to see the benefits that you are looking for.
Edwin Leo 